The Opportunity
Deliver top-notch financial planning and controlling services by analyzing metrics, identifying trends and issues, communicating insights, and recommending actions to enhance financial performance.
How You'll Make An Impact
- Serve as the primary subject-matter expert on controlling topics such as cost control, R&D controlling
- Take ownership for month-end, quarter-end, and year-end closing activities, resolving complex issues and ensuring proper accounting treatment within SAP and related systems.
- Ensure high data integrity through advanced validation, reconciliations, and structured problem-solving.
- Perform detailed operational analyses including cost trends, project variances, accrual logic, internal orders.
- Provide clear, data-based explanations to managers to support operational decision-making (not strategic advisory).
- Prepare and validate financial statements, internal reports, ensuring compliance with internal controls and external regulations.
- Act as a trusted operational point of contact for SAP-related questions (FICO, PS, MM, SD), transactional accuracy, posting logic, and reporting procedures.
- Coordinate with functions such as project execution, supply chain, procurement, and shared services to resolve operational finance issues and ensure alignment with standards.
- Utilize advanced skills in SAP HANA/ECC, ERP systems, BI tools, and MS Office to drive efficient reporting and data management.
- Lead or contribute to operational improvement initiatives, including: process standardization, automation of reporting steps, enhancing accuracy and timeliness of closing activities, optimization of SAP master data or posting processes
- Actively identify and escalate process gaps, proposing operational improvements with clear, practical solutions.
- Model Hitachi Energy's values of Safety, Integrity, and Responsibility in all financial processes.
- Ensure strict compliance with internal controls, documentation requirements, and approved procedures.
- Responsible for ensuring compliance with applicable external and internal regulations, procedures, and guidelines.
- Living Hitachi Energy's core values safety and integrity, which means taking responsibility for your own actions while caring for your colleagues and the business.
Your Background
- Should have Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration or similar
- Must have 5 – 8 years of experience in Controlling, FP&A, or Financial Operations in a multinational environment.
- Strong SAP HANA skills.
- Strong expertise in ERP-based controlling processes, financial closing, and complex operational reporting.
- Proven ability to independently handle complex tasks and lead process execution with minimal supervision.
- Experience guiding or reviewing the work of other finance professionals.
- Strong analytical skills with attention to detail and a high commitment to data accuracy.
- Excellent communication skills in English (written and spoken).
- Strong sense of responsibility, ownership, and discipline in delivering high-quality outputs.
- Proficiency in both spoken & written English language is required.
